Since 1999 the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (SIGECOM) has sponsored the leading scientific conference on advances in theory, systems, and applications for electronic commerce. The Ninth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'08) will feature invited speakers, paper presentations, workshops, and tutorials covering all areas of electronic commerce. The natural focus of the conference is on computer science issues, but the conference is interdisciplinary in nature, addressing research related to (but not limited to) the following topics:

Applications and Empirical Studies, including

Prediction/information markets

Experience with e-commerce systems and markets

Economic approaches to spam control

Pricing for quality of service

Web analysis and characterization for e-commerce

Open access publishing

User contributed content

Economics of online textual content

Behavioral and experimental economics related to e-commerce

Theory and Foundations, including

Computational aspects of economics, game theory, finance, and voting

Automated mechanism design, including computational pricing

Algorithmic mechanism design

Auction and negotiation technology

Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises

Agency and contract theory in e-commerce

Game-theoretic aspects of network formation on the Internet

Preferences and decision theory

Economics of information

Architectures and Languages, including

Peer-to-peer, grid, and other open distributed systems

Mobile commerce

Software and systems requirements, architectures, and performance

Languages for describing agents, goods, services, and contracts

Automation, Personalization, and Targeting, including

AI and autonomous agent systems in e-commerce

Automated shopping, trading, and contract management

Recommendation, reputation, and trust systems

Advertising and marketing technology

Sponsored web search, viral marketing

Databases and data mining

Machine learning for e-commerce applications

Mobile and location-based services

Search and information retrieval for e-commerce

Security, Privacy, Encryption, and Digital Rights, including

Intellectual property and digital rights management

Digital payment systemsAuthentication

Privacy-enhancing technologies

Economics of information security and privacy

Social factors, including

Usability of e-commerce systems

Human factors in security and privacy

Human factors in agents and mechanism design for e-commerce

Legal, policy, and social issues

The conference will be held in Chicago from Tuesday July 8th through Saturday July 12th.

Tutorials and workshops will be held on Tuesday July 8th and Wednesday July 9th, 2008. Accepted technical papers and invited talks will be presented from Thursday July 10th through Saturday July 12th, 2008.

This conference is scheduled immediately before the Game Theory Society Congress being held in Evanston, Illinois and AAAI held in Chicago, both July 14-17, 2008.

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